Jasmine Crockett Bio
Jasmine Felicia Crockett (born 29 March 1981) is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas’s 30th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 100th district in the Texas House of Representatives from 2021 to 2023. Her legislative work in Congress has focused on criminal justice reform, voting rights, and consumer and civil rights protections.
Before entering elected office, Crockett built a career as a defense attorney in East Texas, including service as a public defender in Bowie County and as the founder of her own law practice. She has represented thousands of Texans in cases involving civil rights, criminal defense, and personal injury law.
Early Life and Background
Jasmine Felicia Crockett was born on 29 March 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Rev. Joseph Crockett and his wife, Gwen Crockett, a former postal worker. She grew up in St. Louis and attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School before continuing her secondary education at Rosati-Kain Academy.
At Rhodes College, Crockett majored in business administration and graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts. While performing in a campus production of Little Shop of Horrors, a professor recognized her public speaking ability and encouraged her to join the mock trial team, an experience she has credited with shaping her legal voice. She has also said that she became interested in practicing law after she and other Black students were the victims of a series of hate crimes.
Crockett began her legal education at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University before completing her Juris Doctor at the University of Houston Law Center in 2006. She passed the bar examination the same year and went on to practice law in Texas.
Path to U.S. Politics
From 2007 to 2010, Crockett served as an attorney for the Bowie County Public Defender’s Office in Texas, where she defended juveniles and worked to keep young offenders out of incarceration. In 2010, she ran for Bowie County district attorney and lost, but she was later elected to chair the Bowie County Democratic Party.
That same year, Crockett founded Crockett Law PLLC, a firm she operated until 2022. The practice focused on civil rights, criminal defense, and personal injury matters, including high-profile police brutality cases and pro bono representation of Black Lives Matter activists. Her courtroom experience in East Texas helped establish her reputation as a civil rights attorney before she entered elected office.
Jasmine Crockett Career
Early Career (2021–2023)
Crockett entered elective politics in 2020, when she challenged incumbent Lorraine Birabil for the Democratic nomination in Texas’s 100th House district. After narrowly winning a primary runoff, she won the November 2020 general election unopposed and assumed office in January 2021.
During her tenure in the Texas House, she filed more bills than any other freshman legislator, voted repeatedly against efforts to restrict abortion access, and petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Texas’s six-week abortion ban as unconstitutional. Three of her co-authored bills became law, including legislation that clears certain in-court fees for recently incarcerated persons and a bill that criminalizes financial abuse of the elderly. In the summer of 2021, she joined a Democratic quorum-bust in Austin to block voting restrictions, traveling to Washington, D.C., to lobby the U.S. Senate to pass federal voting rights legislation.
U.S. House Breakthrough (2023–2024)
On 24 November 2021, Crockett declared her candidacy for Texas’s 30th congressional district after incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson announced she would not seek reelection. Johnson endorsed Crockett, who also received significant financial support from Super PACs aligned with the cryptocurrency industry, including a $1 million contribution from Sam Bankman-Fried’s Protect Our Future PAC. Crockett won the Democratic primary runoff and the November 2022 general election, taking office in January 2023.
In her first term, Crockett served as the Democratic freshman class representative between House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly elected Democratic members of the 118th Congress. During a 2023 impeachment hearing for President Joe Biden, she accused Republicans of hypocrisy and displayed photos from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, a moment that went viral on social media. She introduced or co-sponsored legislation including the STRIP Act, the Senior Nutrition Task Force Act of 2023, the Farm to Fuselage Act, the READINESS Act, and the Protected Time Off Act. In November 2024, she won a second term to the House of Representatives, joining the 119th Congress.
119th Congress Era (2025–Present)
In January 2025, Crockett was appointed to the House Judiciary Committee. She also used her seat on the House Oversight Committee to press the U.S. Postal Service on labor practices after the death of Dallas letter carrier Eugene Gates Jr., inviting his widow to that year’s State of the Union address. In May 2025, she voted against the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, calling the reconciliation package a reverse Robin Hood that cut resources from those who needed them most.
In August 2025, Crockett co-introduced the Next Generation of Farmers Act to expand USDA direct farm real estate loans for beginning farmers. In October 2025, amid the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, she introduced the HELP FEDs Act to protect federal employees from penalties on missed student loan payments during shutdowns. In December 2025, she joined Senator Rand Paul, Senator Cory Booker, and Representative Morgan McGarvey to introduce the Breonna Taylor Act, which would ban no-knock search warrants nationwide.
Notable Events and Milestones
Crockett addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention and served as a co-chair of the 2024 Harris–Walz campaign. She also made history as the first Black female Democrat to play in the annual Congressional Baseball Game. In March 2026, she lost the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate primary to state representative James Talarico, after which she released a statement calling on Texas Democrats to unite behind the party’s nominees.
Jasmine Crockett Career Wins
Jasmine Felicia Crockett has won election to the Texas House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, and has built a record of legislative achievements in both chambers. Her first major electoral victory came in 2020, when she won Texas’s 100th House district unopposed. She followed that with a primary runoff win and a general election victory in Texas’s 30th congressional district in 2022, and she secured a second House term in November 2024.
U.S. House Highlights
Crockett has served as the U.S. representative for Texas’s 30th congressional district since January 2023. She was the Democratic freshman class representative during the 118th Congress, joined the House Judiciary Committee in January 2025, and continues to serve on the House Oversight Committee. Her first term featured the passage of community project funding worth $510,000 for Glenn Heights and her role in securing $80 million in federal infrastructure grants for North Texas through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Other Wins and Achievements
During her single term in the Texas House, Crockett filed more bills than any other freshman legislator, and three of her co-authored bills were signed into law. She also became a founding member of the Texas Caucus on Climate, Energy, and the Environment, a bipartisan group working to reduce pollution and grow the state’s economy. Earlier in her career, she was elected to chair the Bowie County Democratic Party.
Jasmine Crockett Family
Family Background and Lineage
Jasmine Felicia Crockett is the daughter of Rev. Joseph Crockett and Gwen Crockett, a former postal worker. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and has described her family background as an important influence on her path into public service and the law.
Personal Life
Crockett is a Baptist and a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She made history as the first Black female Democrat to play in the annual Congressional Baseball Game, an experience she has described as a meaningful personal milestone alongside her work in Congress.